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About Samer Chidiac

An International Expert on Strategic Innovation & Digital Transformation with an extensive regional experience of more than 19 years covering 20 countries in the Middle East & Africa.

Living an influential life where his thoughts, visions, and teachings reach more than 500 thousand followers from around the world on a daily basis through Books, Articles, Quotes, Podcasts and Social Interactions, along with International Speaking engagements on topics related to Innovation, Strategy, Motivation & Technology.

Currently, SC is Chief Innovation & Future Specialist at The Government of Dubai, Based at the Office of the Director General & Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Roads & Transport Authority.

Holding 10 International Awards, publisher of 7 books (including a National Best Seller), and formerly the Chief Executive Officer of one of the FIRST Innovation Management Consulting Firms in the Middle East & Africa (Quick Refresh - QF5) and an Innovator (With IP/Patent on mobile payment);

Prior to QF5, SC was the Chairman & CEO of a Media & Marketing Agency with Focus on IT (HBPRO), President of an NGO (Think Community), Business Mentor (Mowgli Foundation), Instructor (Post-Graduate Degree in Marketing Planning), Technology Innovation Strategist & Advisor (Microsoft)...

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Even in the deepest of the wholes in your relationships, you can still move out and on…. However the more you stay there, the more comfortable it will look and more importantly, the more painful the move will be.
There are some situations in life where it will be inevitable to escape, maybe you miss-trusted someone and you paid the price, maybe you expected too much from someone and you got disappointing results or just maybe that person is simply YOU.
When you forgive, you i

In my life, I have met a lot of people who – at several times in their life – felt trapped in a prison that they built for themselves… You know that feeling where you cannot move forward and can’t seem to do anything else.
Let me ask you few questions then, and see if you have been or you currently are one of these people I’m describing: Have you ever suffered from a loss? Have you ever suffered from a bad breakup? from something that was so bad that it penetrated your every bone

This might not be of a NEWS for you, but I said that I need to write it as reminder for me, for my friends and loved ones. A post about health, and funny enough that SELF-HELP is officially a category under HEALTH in podcasts and Books, so as a self-help post… You Need to Read about Health!
There’s no surprise anywhere, that as you grow older, your physical well being becomes more of a priority than you ever thought it would.
To look at this topic from couple of perspectives,

For so many generations today, Hope, good, security and prosperity and much more were always associated in some form with LIGHT, whether the mark of the ending of the dark times, just like the end of the night with the first rays of sun all the way to the concept of the light at the end of the tunnel.
There’s also the light to mean knowledge that you can have in the realm of ignorance and all what comes with it.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the l

I have been asked this question on multiple occasions, and I while I can’t really answer in a scientific way, but at least I can just tell you what I think and what do the ones I have interviewed think about this topic.
Let’s face it, finding something you don’t know what it looks like is very hard, cause it can be starring at you in the face and you wouldn’t realize… And that is mostly the case around the world… People want to find someone that they can’t define, and when they do end

The most fascinating thing about a child is being brought to this life on a clean slate of knowledge and a lifetime ahead of discovery.
I was reading about the evolution of the human brain, and how there’s a left side and a right side and while our brain grow the same aspect throughout our lives, we tend to start using one side more than the other and we grow into using the other…
The right brain is normally responsible for the imagination while the left is the logical one and

Since the early days of our life and we wait for growing older to be able to realize our dreams, we wait for the next year or the next 10 years and we wait and wait…. Until we are there, but nothing happens.
How does it feel when you wait all your life for a moment to happen and then you keep on waiting and waiting only to get disappointed?
It seems that getting disappointed only comes from our expectations and our limited knowledge on how life SHOULD happen, only to mis

Starting a New Year, a new chapter, a new book or a new life always comes with some luggage that we need to unpack. From past experiences to emotional liabilities or simply old limiting beliefs.
If you take a small trip back in your memory lane, to a time when you were still a little kid, how many things you were afraid of that today doesn’t even count, how many illusions of how life would be turned out to be not even close to what reality was.
Faith is not simply

Guarding your time is a skill that you should master and looking back to find out that a month have passed since you thought of doing something or even a year can strike you by surprise.
At the end of 2010, I published a video called 11 minutes, to highlight that 2011 would be the most productive year of my life, by concentrating 11 minutes everyday to tryout something new.
When you come to think about it, 11 Minutes may not seem much, but 11 minutes everyday for 365 day

At some point in your life, you would wake up to hear that a dear person to you have passed away; It’s one of the most devastating times in your life to bear, to know that this particular person will no longer be physically there anymore.
Knowing that nothing can prepare you for such a moment, a harder time might lie ahead, which is living with Regret; Regret of not being able to spend enough time with them or regret of maybe not being able to sort out some differences that didn’t rea

Are you familiar with Murphy's Law?Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base. It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

One of the most common and fundamental change an individual receives after he or she go through an intensive Leadership training program would be how they look and perceive others.When I was still working back at Microsoft, I remember a talk I’ve had with Naseem Tuffaha, a Senior Director at the time and one who truly possess genuine leadership qualities; Naseem was simplifying to me an important leadership quality, he said:“A true leader can simply be a person who sees through the eyes of the p

In my humble experience in the field of education, and especially when talking about “Innovation in Education”, I get stumbled by the old and new approach of problem solving techniques, especially how teachers used to teach students on how to use a specific process that should pay off.For so many years now, I’ve concentrated my work on Innovation, whether in Business, in Life and in Education; there was a common item that, depending on how you perceive it, can make or break your plan or solution

Everyday, we go through our online social feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc, and we get bombarded by 100s and even thousands of information, some may be useful, some may not, some may be funny, some are sad... You sometimes wonder how much of these you would actually retain in your head after a while?Facebook introduced a feature recently, called Memories, where you can actually check some of your posts years before... I saw some posts that were 9 years old and I could still remember the

If you have ever had the opportunity to study psychology, you would know that one of the foundations of this magnificent study is about learning and the way we learn. And to be able to understand the evolution of the Brain & Mind in this, they normally start with studying babies.There’s a fascinating small game that parents play with their infant child that is almost universally known as “PEEK-A-POO”. The parent (adult) hides his/her face from the child and then shows it again while saying t

At one point in time, I felt as if my life was just standing still, waiting and watching for my planted seed… hopelessly, to grow.They say that when a seed is planted in the ground, there is nothing much you can do, you can water it and try to take care of it as much as possible, but then that’s it… You cannot control the weather, the sunshine, you can’t make it rain, you cannot stop the rain, you cannot control the insects etc…and you can’t influence it to grow faster either. All you can do is

It was almost 10 years ago at a time that I had delivered a talk with Education Leaders in one of the countries in the middle east (Jordan at that time) about the future transformation of our world beginning with the classroom, and how students' behavior is shifting as Life is Shifting at the same time, and what was once a norm in the teacher's time became a "weird" in today's students time; I started my keynote speech with a Question: "Ladies & Gentlemen, are we sitting here

I had an interesting discussion back in October 2015, when I was delivering a workshop in Casablanca - Morocco, about some of the essence of happiness, what makes us happy and what should we change in our behavior to increase the chances of us staying that way.The beginning of that conversation, erupted from a simple emphasize that the more a person is happy and fulfilled, the less he or she will feel the need to require acceptance from others, so at the end of that, I was asked, what would be t

One of my favorite and most probably one of the first stories I heard when I was a kid at school, was the story of the Ant and the Cricket, the cricket that was singing all summer while the Ant was working, and when the winter arrived, the cricket paid the price while the ant ripped off the benefit of hard work.The summary of the story is goes something like this:Once upon a time… one hot summer, a cricket sang cheerfully on the branch of a tree, while down below, a long line of ants struggled g

This story originally happened in March 15, 2014. In the past 2 weeks, I’ve been to 4 different countries, was speaking at conferences and conducting workshops and trainings all day long, and taking red eye flights (Midnight or very early AM) most of the time and sleeping on planes… Bottom line with the lifestyle I have, socializing with someone on a plane, was pretty much the least of my concerns, as I preferred to sleep or at least to preserve my vocal cords .On that flight back from Tunisia t

This story is one of the most popular posts, I did receive it in a chain email about 17 years ago. It got stuck in my mind, and I published it maybe 8 years later. Believe it or not, the story DID change some people's lives, including one person who wrote me back saying that this has stopped him from committing a very bad bad decision about his life. This is how I remember it, and how I published it long time ago.There was a Man a his wife who has been married for a long time, and they were happ

I'm republishing this one popular Blog post that is 7 years old, but remarkably still getting lots of views.Today (the time I originally posted this) is 10.10.10 and one of the GEEKEST Days, so I decided to dedicate this Post to WHOM IT MAY CONCERNSo you’re dating a Programmer, a Techy or an IT Guy…Here’s some GOLDies you need to take into consideration and This will save you lots of headache and sleepless nights talking to your self and saying .. WHY THE HELL MY GUY DOESN’T UNDERSTAND ME!!!10.

Although most of what you’re about to read can be applied almost anywhere in the world, I’d like to dedicate this post to my readers from the Middle East as most of the experiences behind this were developed based on samples of individuals from the Arab World.Over the past 7 years, I have LITERALLY interviewed over 300 persons for different roles within my companies and coached over 2,000 individuals from different parts of the world on topics like Personal Development & Career development a

I Once heard a great story about a Very Famous JAZZ Player, who was like 85 at the time but still plays his instrument passionately in a small pub, and at that night barely 2 –3 people showed up (there was Super Bowl finale or something at the same time) … and once asked WHY??? he replied…“it’s For the Music…” When you’re doing what you’re doing… most of the times you will need to remind yourself WHY you’re doing so… Community Presentations is never about money, it’s not for Fame, not about fanc

Below is an extract from a GREAT Book I read; Jim Collins’ Good to Great. The analogy seems just like the way I explain things in my books so I thought I would share it with you.How change doesn’t happenPicture an egg. Day after day, it sits there. No one pays attention to it. No one notices it. Certainly no one takes a picture of it or puts it on the cover of a celebrity-focused business magazine.Then one day, the shell cracks and out jumps a chicken.All of a sudden, the major magazines and new

It all started when I received a lot of similar questions that had similar answers, and I had limited time to answer few of them, so I said why not create a platform to share the answers to common question while educating the rest of the world on what is the logic used in solving the problem in the first place?So I went Live on Facebook, and received some good encouragement to go through with this project... and here we go!

On The Occasion of the 3rd Year of the Launch of 7 Minutes Motivation, the purpose is finally stated!
Video Transcript
It all started in 1998, I needed to do a research for one of my courses in college about techniques of communication; I wanted to get to the bottom of how human communication take place… I went to visit a center that works with Hearing Impaired children, to see how you can communicate when you can’t actually talk;
Well, That was the start of an experience tha

Last night, I had a dream… A dream that a plane I was in crashed As most people know me, I’ve lived the past 10 years of my life with one simple principle… I live everyday with NO REGRETS… So that dream didn’t affect my day or me in a way that made me START to look back and reflect on how I lived my life, and what I did right or wrong… I kinda did that years back, and decided that I’m not going to be in that situation ever again… So the Same risk is and will always be there… a

Last night, I had a dream… A dream that a plane I was in crashed As most people know me, I’ve lived the past 10 years of my life with one simple principle… I live everyday with NO REGRETS… So that dream didn’t affect my day or me in a way that made me START to look back and reflect on how I lived my life, and what I did right or wrong… I kinda did that years back, and decided that I’m not going to be in that situation ever again… So the Same risk is and will always be there… and the possibility

After he discovered a rare disease that made his intellectual abilities grow stronger than any normal man alive, Bob receives an irresistible offer to be among the elite team who planned the new middle east. Along the way, Bob (who later on became known as “The Feel Doctor”) used his unique analytic brain to plant the seed of what changed the world of more than 2 Billion people.

The Feel Doctor is Samer Chidiac’s first Purely Fiction Novel.
Available on Ama

Part of the “Influencing the Life of Others” personal social responsibility project of Samer Chidiac, The Monday Tip has started as a weekly blog Discussing Strategy, Motivation, Communication & Productivity.

Although the blog is a free resource for everyone to enjoy and benefit from, a CHALLENGE has been created out of it, the REFRESH! Challenge… Are you able to Refresh your Life in Just 30 Days? Get the Book, Read the Tip and Ta

We all Strive to better manage our lives, and for Samer Chidiac, Managing your life is all about Managing your time in it.
The 10 Unbreakable Rules of Time Management is a simple approach to learn all the core concepts and best practices of probably what would be the most important skill you can master in your entire life.
The 10 Rules are interesting to read and easy to understand and can instantly impact your life.
Available on Amazon.com as paperback & kindle&n

Part of the “Influencing the Life of Others” personal social responsibility project of Samer Chidiac, the 7 Minutes Motivation podcast has started as a free podcast in Arabic targeting the Arab speaking world.
on a Weekly basis, 7 MM was broadcasted with a story or a theme that would only take 7 minutes to listen to and a motivational energy that last for at least 1 week.
Due to the huge popularity of the podcast, the book was produced (in english)
For Paperback &

The First Book of the Series is out!
Join the young Adam’s story where he discovered his potential and worked toward realizing his dreams. During his path, he meets an interesting couple, The Kays, who coached & mentored Adam along the way on how to approach the Professional & Personal life based on their long experience in Business & Psychology. A story about Friendship, Work, Love & Life and a transformation from the average young man into the Successful & Aspiri

The Year 2013 has just started, and we just launched a New Bonus Episode.
The Episode is all About Words vs Actions and how we can change the way we talk and get a higher benefit on many scales.
Speak Louder than Actions
You can listen to it following this link
Cheers,SC